Erin Varra has a problem. A woman has been murdered in her bed, and the Inquisition is knocking at the door.

Once one of the Inquisition’s best investigators, Erin has lost her position, her reputation and the woman she loved. Then the mysterious Louisa Ashby offers her a way back: recover a jewellery box from a private sanitarium, and Erin might earn the right to investigate again.

The job should be simple. It isn’t. When a frightened young woman appears at Erin’s rooms and is killed, Erin finds herself with a second mystery and bodies beginning to pile up.

Corpses give you nothing.

Erin intends to make the living talk.

For fans of Raymond Chandler and Glen Cook’s Garrett, P.I. novels, and readers of classic hard-boiled detective fiction. A dark fantasy noir mystery set in a Victorian-inspired city, following a disgraced investigator whose faith survives even after the system she served has cast her out.